I'm working on my webcomic/animated series Blade of the Last Gods, but I'm doing things a little differently on how I build my fan base. When we reach a certain amount of Facebook Likes, I release new content. So far it's been images but once we hit 10,000 Likes, it will be a webcomic. After 4 days we've gained 2,500+ fans.

Check out the page here and click "Like" so we can unlock the webcomic for all the fans!

Well, I don't have a Facebook account, so I'm probably not going to enjoy your comic. ^^;

Good luck with your project, nonetheless. Looks neat.

Building fanbases takes lots of time. I have a bunch of readers that keep coming back on my site for updates. Haven't accomplished too much in 1 year and a half since I started my webcomic. Must have like a little over 100 or so. I don't even know anymore since ComicRank died. They are veeery quiet and I rarely get any feedback. ;< I know they've increased since I started running campaigns on PW. If they like my stuff, they will be back for more.

And honestly, I'm sort of afraid of popularity. It has its ...downsides. I sort of want to have it one day, but I'm just not ready for it right now._________________

2500+ likes in 4 days!??!?! I don't even have that many views on my site, and it's been up for like 2 months. You're sort of holding your artwork for ransom, and it's totally working. I feel like if I did that my comic would just die from lack of interest.

I still feel that my comic is too new to have much of a fan base. I known that some people are reading it because they are friends, but other than that I don't have much of a clue if they are coming back. I don't think I would hold my comic for ransom though, its just not my style.
I haven't started advertising yet because like I said the comic is new, but knowing at least 10 people probably look at it regularly is enough for me.

I don't even know how you'd reach 2500 people in 4 days, much less get that many to hit "Like" on a thing they haven't been able to read.

My latest endeavor is to gather up all the creators of my favorite popular(ish) web-comics, email each of them individually, and ask them to take a look at my comic. If they like it, I ask them to tweet about it or Facebook it in hopes that some of their fans may cross over.